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Huge crowds form as Ontario restaurant opens for indoor dining during lockdown

None of us can forget theAdamson BBQsaga, during which an Etobicoke restaurant opened for indoor and outdoor diningfor multiple daysin defiance of provincial lockdown rules at the time,becoming a home base of sortsfor those protesting government-imposed restrictions in the process.

It appears that another establishment has now done the same, remaining open since February 3 despitethe provincewide shutdownthat was implementedon Saturdayandthe stay-at-home orderintroduced yesterday.

Family Kitchen is a restaurant in Leamington, Ontario — about a 3.5 hour drive southwest of Toronto, near Windsor — has had hundreds of diners lining up to grab a bite and demonstrate against the lockdown.

It has been operating during its regular hours at 50 per cent capacity, the same as the big box store down the street, owner Kristy Leathemnoted to CTV Newsearlier this week.

The business is in Windsor-Essex County, which had been in the red zonesince re-entering the province's reopening frameworkon Feb. 16 following ourlast blanket shutdown.

In red, food and drink establishments were indeed to accept 50 per cent of their usual customers for indoor dining, to a maximum of 50 people, thanks to loosened dining measures rolled out on March 20.

Prior to that, indoor dining in red zones was capped at 10 people, regardless of size.

Other rules included a mandatory distance of at least two metres between tables, the wearing of masks until eating and drinking, and a limit of four people per table, all of whom had to provide their personal details for contact tracing purposes.

Leathem,who has 16 employees, has already been paid a visit by public health officials, and has also been issueda fine and court summonsfrom provincial police, per the Windsor Star.

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